Macaroni-server



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. LINCOLN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT L.LINCOLN AND CHS. M. FOSS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. i

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,266, dated July '1, 1856.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. LINCOLN, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefularticle of manufacture which I term a Maraconi-Server; and I do herebydeolare that the same is fully described and represented in thefollowing specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figurel, is a top elevation of such article. Fig. 2, a front edge elevation ofit. Fig. 3 a rear edge or back view of it.

The purpose of the article in question is to enable a person toconveniently and readily remove cooked maraconi from a dish or to liftthe same therefrom and transfer it to another dish, the instrument beingan article of table service; it may also be used to great advantage intransferring various other kinds of vegetable matters from one dish toanother.

It consists of a broad blade or plate, A, provided with a handle, B, andhaving a series of teeth a, b, c, d, e, e, e, &c., arranged and made toproject therefrom as seen in Figs. 1, and 2, the arrangement of saidteeth being very peculiar with respect to the blade, that is to say,they extend in a curve around one side and the front end of the blade,and not either sidewise or endwise alone therefrom.

handle, they are usually made to stand at y right angles to its axis,and do not project from the end, as well as, from the side of it,

Besides this, a common dinner table fork, 40 and a comb made with ahandle, are articles of manufacture of an entirely different nature, andare used for purposes differing from my macaroni server, whose prongs orteeth are disposed so as to extend from one side and from one end of it,such rendering the instrument very convenient for the use to which it isto be applied. The said macaroni server Vmay be made of any suitablemetal, or composition of metals; I usually prefer to construct it'entirely of silver, but like many other articles in use for tableservice, it may be made of copper7 German silver or other metal, andplated with either silver or gold, and ornamented according to fancy.

In the drawings, "and particularly in Fig. l, it is exhibited asprovided with a series of openings or ornamental slots f, f, f, the samebeing for the purpose of discharging liquids which may be taken up withthe macaroni and which it may be desirable to have fall back into thedish from which it Y may have been raised.

I claim as a new article of manufacture, and as of my invention,

The above rdescribed Macaroni server, as made with its teeth or prongsarranged with respect to its blade substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, thistwenty-second day of March A. D. 1856.

A. L. LINCOLN.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr,

